RE: eval problem in the rcfile

["Tan, Ben (ITS, Limestone Ave)" <Ben.Tan@its.csiro.au>]

Hi,

  Thanks for your reply. 

  The following two paragraphs from our rcfile illustrate the problem:
<!--  ==================================================================== -->
<!--                FIRSTDATE                                              -->
<!--  ==================================================================== -->
<DefineVar>
FIRSTDATE
eval $tmp = $Date{$MListOrder[0]}; 
</DefineVar>
<!--  ==================================================================== -->
<!--                LASTDATE                                               -->
<!--  ==================================================================== -->
<DefineVar>
LASTDATE
eval $tmp = $Date{$MListOrder[$#MListOrder]};
</definevar>
...
...
...
<b> Starting :&nbsp</b><i>$FIRSTDATE$</i><br>
<b> Ending :&nbsp</b><i>$LASTDATE$</i><br>
<b> Messages:&nbsp</b><i>$NUMOFMSG$</i><br>
</p>
....
....

  What we really want to do is to include the Starting and Ending date in the html page.
I have tried with your suggest of $MSGGMTDATE(FIRST)$, however it gives GMT time rather than
local time.

  Would appreciate if you can help on how to fix the eval $tmp = $Date{$MListOrder[0]};

  Thanks again.

Ben


From: Earl Hood <ehood@hydra.acs.uci.edu> 
To: "'mhonarc@ncsa.uiuc.edu'" <mhonarc@ncsa.uiuc.edu> 
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 11:33:41 -0700 
Message-Id: <200106071833.LAA28893@hydra.acs.uci.edu> 

>>   I wonder whether someone can help on this one. 
> >
>> Before we run MHonArc 2.2.0, and no problem.  Bow we installed the 
>> V2.4.6, then the following line in the rcfile is not evaluated (should be the
> > 
> >starting date of archives):
> >    eval $tmp = $Date{$MListOrder[0]};
>> 
>> we are running Perl 5.005.

>It helps to know where exactly in your resource file this statement
>exists.  There are is only a very small set of resources that allow
>Perl code, and the code is evaluated within specific contexts.

>BTW, the information you are trying to retrieve is accessible via the
>message data resource variables specifying a mesg_spec argument.  For
>example,
>
>        $MSGGMTDATE(FIRST)$
>
>--ewh

-----Original Message-----
From: Tan, Ben (ITS, Limestone Ave) [mailto:Ben.Tan@its.csiro.au]
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 5:10 PM
To: 'mhonarc@ncsa.uiuc.edu'
Subject: eval problem in the rcfile


Hi,

  I wonder whether someone can help on this one. 

Before we run MHonArc 2.2.0, and no problem.  Bow we installed the 
V2.4.6, then the following line in the rcfile is not evaluated (should be the 
starting date of archives):
    eval $tmp = $Date{$MListOrder[0]};

we are running Perl 5.005.

 Thanks very much.

Ben